Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
7th Edition
ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 5PE

  a.

Explanation of Solution

  Example of dataset

  • Consider the case where a professor in physics department teaches an electric engineering course.
  • Even though there is a valid entry in teaches, it is lost in the natural join of instructor, teaches and course, since the instructor’s department name does not match the department name of the course...

  b.

Explanation of Solution

Reason for using query

  • The query that computes the natural join of instructor, teaches and course is an example for creating tuples in reference relation ...

  c.

Explanation of Solution

Reason for using query

  • In the query,

 select * from teaches natural join instructor;

  • In the above query, some sections are lost if teaches...

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